Coating composition



Oct. 23, 1945. W A, WALDIE 2,387,424

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Coene-R WRINKLE wams CoMPasl-noN INVENTOR WILLIAM A. WALDIE,

ATTCRNEYS Patented Oct. 23, 1945 (JOA'IING: COMPOSITION William Allshire Waldle, Oakwood, Ohio, asslgnor to New Wrinkle, Inc., Wilmington, Del., a oorporation of Delaware Application October. 25, 1943, Serial No. 507,495

6 Claim- (Cl. 106222) This invention relates to coating compositions,

vand more particularly deals with coating compositions which dry to a wrinkle when applied on a surface and dried by heat or otherwise. The present invention is concerned primarily with the production of such wrinkle drying coating compositions from cils which are normally nonwrinkling in character. These oils include, for example, linseed oil and soya bean oil.

According to the present invention, a normally nonwrinkling drying oil such as linseed oil or soya bean oil is treated with a selective solvent such as furfural, furiural acetone. iurfuryl alcovention.

The essence of the present invention lies in the separation from the oil of the extractable portion thereof and in admixing that extractable portion together with the extractionsolvent with the wrinkle varnish base made by reacting the remainder of the oil with resin in the usual manner. The addition of the extracted portion y of the oil and the extraction solvent to the wrinkle varnish base which results from the inter-reaction of the remainder of the oil and the resin brings about a modification of the wrinkle texture which is a characteristic of the selectively extracted oil and resin reaction product which is herein called the wrinkle varnish base.

The extraction of the drying oil with the selective solvent may be carried out in any suitable manner as is customary in the art. Extraction under reiiux proves quite satisfactory, and the two layers which form after theextraction has been completed and the oil has been allowed to lie quiescent for time sunicient to obtain full separation may be separated by decantation or otherwise depending on individual preference and conditions.

The extracted oil remaining after separation oi the solvent and the extracted portion commingled therewith may be reacted with the resin at temperatures and other conditions such as generally employed ill the art" to form a wrinkle varnish base.

added to the wrinkle varnish base at such temperature as might prove most advantageous; This temperature might vary from 200 to 400 F. Obviously, the lower the temperature the longer the period required to produce a. homogeneous mixture. A temperature of 300 F. mightbe considered the most satisfactory under` usual conditions. It will be obvious that the temperature should be varied according to the boiling point of the particular solvent or mixture of solvents employed in order to minimize the loss of solvent.

According tothe present invention, the quantity of solvent in the solvent-extract mixture added to the wrinkle varnish base should be sufflcient to produce the consistency which is desirable for proper application of the resulting Wrinkle varnish, but, if necessary or desirable, additional quantities of the same solvent or mixture of solvents or of any compatible solvent or mixture of solvents may be added to bring the wrinkle varnish to the desired consistency or body tor the mode oi' application to be utilized.

The drier may be added to the wrinkle varnish base either berore or after or during the addition of the solvent-extract mixture thereto. Cobalt naphtnenate containing 4% metal is a suitable drier, but those skilled ln the art will understand that other drlers generally employed in. the' formulation of wrinkle coating compositions may De employed SuCCeSSI-lllly and. SaUSIaCUOly in the practice of tne present invention.

'l'ne lndlvldual iuran derivative solvents above enumerated may be employed indlvldually or in mixtures thereof, and other solvents compatible wltn them may oe used 1n admlxture tnerewlth.

By way or illustration, a. now sneet showing diagrammatlcally the steps of the method of the present invention is given 1n the annexed draw- 111g.,

It will be understood that while there have been described nereln certain embodiments oi the present invention, it is not intended thereby to have this invention limited to or circumscribed by the specific details of procedure, conditions, substances, or materials herein described or illustrated in the drawing in view of the fact that the present invention is susceptible to modifications according to individual preierence and conditions without departing from the spirit of this disclosure and the Ascope of the appended claims.

I claimz' 1. The method of making a wrinkle varnish coating composition which comprises extracting a non-conjugated type drying oil with a selective The solvent and extract from the oil may be solvent comprising solvent selected from the group consisting of turfural, furfural acetone. iuri'uryl alcohol, and tetrahydroiuriuryl alcohol, separating the solvent-extract mixturefrom said oil, reacting the remaining oil with resin to form a wrinkle varnish base, adding drier and the solvent-extract mixture to said varnish base, and

heat treating the mixture further at a temperature of from 200 to 400 F. to produce a wrinkle varnish coating composition.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a wrinkle varnish coating composition having the characteristics of a, product produced according to the method oi' claim 1. Y

3. The method of making a wrinkle varnish coating composition which comprises extracting a non-frosting drying oil selected from the group consisting oi linseed oil and soya bean oil with a selective solvent selected from the group .consisting of furfural, furfural acetone, turiuryl alcohol, tetrahydroi'urfuryl alcohol, and mixtures thereof. separating the solvent-'extract mixture from said oil, reacting the remaining oil with resin to form a wrinkle varnish base, adding drier and the solvent-extract mixture to said varnish base, and heat treating the mixture further at a temperature of from 200 to 400 F. to produce a wrinkle varnish coating composition. i

4. As a new article of manufacture, a wrinkle varnish coating composition having the characteristics oi a product produced according to the method of claim 3.

oil with a selective solvent selected from the group v consisting of iurfural,V furfural acetone, furiuryl alcohol. tetrahydroiuriuryl alcohol. and mixtures thereof, separating the solvent-extract mixture from said oil. reacting the remaining oil with resin to form a wrinkle varnish base, adding drier and the solvent extract mixture to said varnish base, and heat treating the mixture further at a temperature of approximately 300 F. to produce a wrinkle varnish coating composition.

6. In a method of making a wrinkle varnish coating composition: The step (a) treating a non wrinkling non-conjugated drying oil with a selective solvent selected from the group consisting of furiural, iurfural acetone, iurfural alcohol and tetrahydroiurfural alcohol: the step (b) separating the solvent extract mixture and adding to the remaining portion oil soluble resins that are compounded. therewith; the step (c) adding the solvent extract mixture previously separated and causing it to reactat a temperature of from 200 to 400 F. with theswrinkle varnish base heretotore formed in order to form a homogeneous composition which, when admixed with suitable driers, yields a wrinkle varnish. 

